San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-03-11
Miss Rose Chester.


Mrs. Cunning. of Sunnyside. West
Kensington, ALWAYS considered that she
mad been particularly fortunate IN her
| iougers. ohe hau put tWo' aiu Iney
nau peen Win Ier ever slIlce tHe ueCease
OF the lalnehtea DunnIng-a CLERK III
tne customs, VINO rSturllIu9 louie on d
certain payday III November, Win LWo
potties Oh WIne III ms outeI coas anu
one III MS inner man, WalKeq lneo tne
IHaines anu was uroWiieu-hau coni-
pelieo ser 70 retiIe W tue paseiient,
anu ouer Tue upper PoltioIs vi ner
mouse, az mouerale rent, 10 gentlemen
OF quiet haDlIs, seeking com ortaole
nome III pleasahC SUBURBAN heignUor-
Ioou. Oh the very uay tnaC MIS-.
DuhnlnHg auverIis s! apPeareu III
VIC DtItg teteyrupt.ht .oIInuel uIeeiey,
Slilel CASHIER ~ govellulenI sayinSs
pain, eisase .I .ne a sdon anu M Sho
ywy yIn! III tiie sLoiLfu nEolt anu NJ.
VII, Mlliiam Myile, cnlet su9-ealtor OF
local ualiy paper; engageu the suing
room anu Tue peurooul on She llrst noor.
tIe aay, l tniiki was oa'NLuIMEIiin
oenu nus h sid boht ee t T MI So
c0ntlaiy 70 HIS laDi' On tlie QUIET uay
GI the was at t nome an sne even
my. hpouG =. III. Ile TWO SeI'leuieh
i IN t9e passage, eKchanged greet,
LIZ anu eLteieu upon u.SCu2S.o,t oh
poil'ics' WHICH, Decoinih@ ahiiia'eu'
her LOGGER and herself. "But a huncom-
mon case. sir-auite a case, as | said to
myself acomin' up the stairs. quite
case to move Mr.Greeley's art. The
Young lady-for I'm sure She is lady,
sir-came and said she is but IS years
old. and obligated to live alone becos of
a step-mother that uses her that shame
full. Left house in the next street,
she say, through not likin' to meet on
the stairs two young men which lodged
there; bein' alone, and no protectin'
and. Gets her own Twin. sir, though
she didn't say how, and desires of
quiet 'ome in a respectable 'ouse,
where kitchen fire is not a hextra, and
mothers influence, as you might say,
sir. throwed in with the table-linen."
"YOu say that she is young, Mrs.
Dunning?"
"S4ys she's IS, sir, and don't look
hardly that. Was going right away
when | said my dodgers was gentlemen,
but came back when ! said, quiet sol
emn. they was both old enough to be
her father"
"Ehp" said Mr.. Greeley; "old enough
to be her"
Father, sir-you and Mr.. Wylie, sir;
and such dodgers, Il said las a lady obligat-
ed through cruel fortin' to let apart
ments at Is shillings-which they'd be
cheap at 5O-was never afore blessed
with. When l mentioned your ages,
sir,-yours and Mr.. Wylie's,-the young
lady said she'd STAY at once. The name
on the box is Chester-Miss Rose Ches-
ter"
sAnd where is Miss Chester at this
moment, Mrs. Dunning?"
''In the back kitchen, sir, a curlin' of
her front hair"
THANK YOU, Mrs. Dunning. You
NAV COZ
"Thanking YOU, sir, which will"
That interesting operation in the
back kitchen referred to by Mrs. Dunn
ing. and but dimly apprehended by Mr..
Greeley. being at length completed.
there was a sound of light feet tripping
briskly up the stairs, and presently the
same feet tripped down again, the front
door was opened, and Miss Chester ran
down the garden and into the street.
Mr.. Greeley craned his neck perilously
behind the window-blind, but saw ONLY
the back of the new lodger-though, to
be sure, it was very pretty back. BY
and by the garden gate swung open,
ana she returned, A laJcn-KtV turned
in the door. Just then it occurred to
Mr., Greeley that he would brush his
oyercoat and he stepped into the pas
sage to take it from the peg. The mas
sages in the houses at Sunnyside, West
Kensington. being constructed on
severely economic principles. there re-
suited a momentary encounter between
Mr.. Greeley and Miss Chester. Miss
Chester's hands were full of packages,
and in her maidenlv embarrassment
she let one of them fall. Mr.. Greeley
| picked IL I'D and replaced il. Miss Ches-
ter blushed and laughed little musical
laugh. and said. THANK vou.n At the
foot of the stairs the same ridiculous
package escaped again. Mr.. Greeley
picked il nm and replaced it: and Miss
| Chester blushed and laughed, and said,
THANK you.n as before. She had hard
| " set foot on the first landing when
that same absurd package and another
package slipped from her arms and
rolled to the bottom of the stairs. Mr.,
Greeley was equal to the occasion,
gathered them up, and carried them to
where Miss Chester stood-no longer
laughing but bushing in more des-
perately bewitching way than ever. She
said, Thank you so much; how very
careless of mel" took them from him,
| retreated into her room, and shut the
door.
What very odd thingl" said Mr..
Craalau ac no rat,,rpa1 ssIVbat on